Profile Information
Location
Lawton, OK
Country
United States
Postal Code
73505-4851
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Army Substance Abuse Prevention Program/Program Manager
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Department of Health/Debra Johnson in Lawton/Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I learned about ACEs in 2005 from Julie Cribbs, assistant dean (at that time) for the School of Social Wk. at OU in Norman. I began to apply those facts/data to my private practice and with military members in treatment. It has been so slow to get recognized. We showed the resilience film at Cameron University 5 years ago and only a hand full of people came. No one was using it in the program at Ft. Sill intended to educate families so I called and told them I was going to begin and wanted them to join our team. They did and we were presenting "You bet your ACEs" to connect it to our program. Until COVID, we did it twice a year using Dr. Elizabeth Garcia as our expert.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
Lawton/Ft. Sill, Oklahoma